From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Hord Subject: Re: Why Is There No Bug Tracker And Why Are Patches Sent Instead Of Pull Requests Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:18:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7vhay9tqs6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20120229225304.GA9099@burratino> <8762eoimp0.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> <7vmx80nt68.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4F504699.3070406@gmail.com> <20120302041924.GG5248@burratino> <4F505F8C.70802@gmail.com> <7vsjhrfprz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Neal Kreitzinger , Jonathan Nieder , Thomas Rast , Andrew Ardill , opticyclic , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 07 18:19:04 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S5KVz-0005Bh-Vl for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:19:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756528Ab2CGRS7 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:18:59 -0500 Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:48474 "EHLO mail-lpp01m010-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755524Ab2CGRS6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:18:58 -0500 Received: by lahj13 with SMTP id j13so7516930lah.19 for ; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:18:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eZoidLoT120MSUi63U0MX6PEP3WpUNbmEpxh86b1mVM=; b=kdW7Zg+LSwmE8pIcc58sLrvRUdxwmUvWDqABGgrZcooSd37A/zgJIYqZP9Hrio/jD9 H/y5roX/kAUU6jlQu+SYxqKhKfpWX9pd7ZOJfvfL8KIeqiPHtyT+b2cNJUqIdUA6/ME+ I6R6XXrlVSG/5x90CdQZgbfJEzMu6hy1TJIAGsGmu0xvepGLXMTAMxJXuRPcutELH4B8 o3VOz1ucIiSNatjipZ3afng3XL5ky/f66fdYXrQBlsEe7TpJxJYbnZXnXslPDFGpy+g2 f+2swdXWMMdy7tj5fAcRiOtao0x7Y4F/i48h3ojUflcqsqNTFC7MpT7PYktspRs2QLcF IncQ== Received: by 10.152.147.1 with SMTP id tg1mr2002247lab.22.1331140736651; Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:18:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.8.133 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:18:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7vsjhrfprz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Junio C Hamano wrot= e: > Neal Kreitzinger writes: > >> I realize this is not an exact match of the git-workflow, but you ge= t >> the idea. =A0I'm also new to mailinglists so I'm not sure if you can >> change part of the subject line. =A0If not, a header in the body cou= ld >> possibly be used. > > The most important information is missing from your discussion: who a= re > you trying to help, and what problem are you trying to solve? Problems this could help solve (regardless of whether it's an appropriate tool for the job): 1. Collects issues into a more concise list than the mailing list provi= des. 2. Collects issues (and discussion) conveniently bundled with the git source code. 3. Collects issues for off-line reference and searching. 4. Reduction of list noise, if issues in git.git turn out to be better grep-targets than the mailing list. 5. Serves as an incubator for a git-based distributed issues tracker Best Practice or Dire Warning, depending on how it goes. The current mailing list bug tracker, where finding existing issues and previous discussions is "crowd-sourced" to the list, is very efficient for the new users, but not so efficient for the core developers and respondents. I doubt this idea is really workable or appropriate for git.git, for various reasons. But I do think a well-designed, distributed, git-based issue tracker could be useful for many other projects. Many others have tried and failed, so I am probably wrong about this last statement. See [*1*] for a list of mostly stagnating prior art. Phil [*1*] http://dist-bugs.branchable.com/software/